As from this moment AI might be the newest accelerator of prolific creativity since the 3D printer. In 11th episode of the It’s Just A Model podcast Ron and I came to a new paradigm, namely: with AI we are -for all intents and purposes- able to think things into existence. How we coined it: AI Manifestation, with a cheeky wink to the 19th century movement that used similar vocabulary.
As Ron described his experience: he could now put 12 ‘AI Rons’ to work to not only increase his capacity, but he could in effect also create out of thin air, by ‘prompting’ a new AI Ron with specific properties to uniquely carry out tasks, but more specifically, increase and speed up the creative capacity of Ron. For purposes of the time this article is written: such ‘AI Ron’ would be akin to an ‘AI agent’, but more so.
Not this: Delegate the mundane by a carbon copy you
And this thought is preceded by notions from other media like ‘The AI Report’ with Alexander Klöpping and Wietse Hage. In the March 19th, 2026 episode of their podcast Alexander raved about his capacity to automate all of his mundane tasks by materializing AI agents into existence as if they were specific autonomous apps. These apps would have a blueprint of his ‘author personality’, so that tasks like posting and gathering information for newsletters would happen as if he was in control. Wietse hinted that our perception on apps and services would change. That services and apps we subscribe to, delivered by others, would transform to ecosystems with tailor (read: customer) made ‘agents’.
But this: Less automation, more creativity
Ron and I, however reframed Alexanders concept with a very specific difference. Rather than focusing on the automation of the mundane, we focus on creating more depth and capacity of creativity. Rather minimizing the every day tasks of doing business and thus create more ‘quality time’, we believe that AI Manifestation is more about maximizing our creative bandwidth and a more personal depth to said creativity. By leveraging personal, historical, creative information like articles, source code and information caches (bookmarks, favorite books and exchanges) one could vastly increase the creative fidelity and output.
Willing into existence
Like the 3D printer, one can now simply will such creative outings into existence and this IS revolutionary. We could now create not only some notions, articles or plans, perhaps prototypes, but purely through what we now call ‘prompts’, can create another creative entity that can also help create new services, products and artifacts. When connected to physical services like 3D modelling services and sensory information, we could even take our first steps on using the ‘world model’ enabled AI services.
The editor manifested
The role of ‘the editor’ was our best example of a AI manifested entity. Rather than a facsimile of one of us that would ‘edit’ our works as if they were one of us, the ‘editor’ would be a conversation partner with specific ‘personality’ and traits that can help boost the quality of creativity, like say: writing a book. And rather than a spell-checker, it would not be triggered in some instances, but would be connected as a care-taker of a specific project. The ‘editor’ would have access to all relevant information to help one of us to both finish, but also enhance, accelerate and grow the already existing qualities in ourselves.
Take a step back on whats next?
I think besides: ‘this but better’, we need to rethink how we want to proceed with this experiment, set up some ground rules for ourselves to make sure we do not replace ourselves with busy poor carbon copies and bored people. Rather I like the optimism of Ron that points more towards: how about we take the best of us, and try to maximize that even further. Both help us to make better, but also help us evolve faster to BE better. AI might even play a useful role in our lives and we might also do away with the optimization of productivity, because productivity will not take us further towards laudable goals: creativity will.